ALTERNATIVE NEWS

9 Jul 2013

Austerity
becomes, finally, all Greek to the Greeks. Only Troika can do this,
because it depresses the hearts other tears cannot reach.

(with heartfelt homage to the CDP Heineken campaign)

The Slog:A firm based in Tiptree UK – which manufactures and supplies body
armour for military personnel and police forces across the world – has
secured a deal worth more than £1.2million to supply the Greek police
with bullet-proof vests. VestGuard UK’s commercial director Oliver
Lincoln said the company was “absolutely thrilled” to have completed the
order with the Greek police, at a time when the equipment “will really
make a difference to the country”.

Not (on the surface of it) the most tactful of things to say there Ollie, but I think you were referring to our
country, not Greece. I wish Oliver Lincoln all luck in his quest to
find credit insurance for the deal: he’s going to need it. In the
meantime, I see no signs of any difference in Greece, beyond further
slide down a Helter-Troika into the cesspool of globalist madness.

The cradle of democracy itself has, sadly, been converted into a
crèche, and occupied by a small number of mad political babies. The new
‘more fair’ taxation system about to be introduced will, once it has
been passed by the Greek Parliament, call upon all employees, pensioners
and self-employed to pay more tax in advance. The
self-employed are being asked to stump up a ball-crunching 80%. Nothing
like freeing up some working capital to get the economy moving, that’s
what I say.

By Wolf Richter:The financial crisis was brutal for Germany, but the recovery was
steep, and in 2011, the gloating started. They called it the German “success recipe,”
a system that was somehow superior to any other. It would keep the
economy growing even as Eurozone mayhem was breaking out all around.
That optimism has endured, and stocks have hit new highs in May, but the
German economy has diverged sharply from that scenario.A key element in that “success recipe”- much to the chagrin of
Germany’s beleaguered neighbors – is the relentless drive to export. The
whole political and economic machine is geared that way. Foreign policy
decisions are made on that basis. As are domestic policy decisions. In
return, the economy has become dependent on exports.But exports tumbled 4.8%
in May from a year earlier, to €88.2 billion, the worst month so far
this year. For the first five months of 2013, exports were below the
same period last year. Exports to non-euro EU countries, such as the UK,
dropped 2.4%. Exports to Eurozone countries – in a magnificent display
of the fiasco that the euro has become – plummeted 9.6%.

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the salary men foot soldiers in the
financial war who refuse to surrender hope for an increase in allowance
and the financial cannon fodder, like small businesses in Italy, who
are sent to the front lines to be destroyed by the generals' bad debts
and the deflation caused by ever expanding quantitative easing type
policies. In the second half, Max talks to Ian Williams of Charteris
Treasury about the precious metals bull market and the beginning of the
bear market in bonds and what this means for the banks that hold these
bonds. Source

By Lee Adler:Here
we go again with more self appointed experts repeating the big,
pernicious misconceptions about what QE does and does not do. Let me put
it bluntly. The ideas that QE does not cause inflation and that it’s
not the equivalent of printing money are categorically false, regardless
of how many times you see those points made, and on how many websites.
They are not true.The idea that QE does not stimulate CPI inflation is correct. That is
not the same thing as QE does not cause inflation and is not money
printing. QE is money printing. It causes some kinds of inflation, but
may not cause some types of inflation at a given time. Under other
conditions it may. Under current conditions, it does not raise CPI.QE stimulates inflation, only not the dumbed down definition of
inflation encapsulated in CPI or PCE. If you dumb down inflation to
exclude all the things that are inflating, then voila, there’s no
inflation. However, QE is directly responsible for asset inflation. It
was directly responsible for increasing money supply dollar for dollar,
but it could not drive CPI inflation. Establishment economists and their
supporting cast of lying shills deliberately exclude asset inflation
from their definitions of inflation. So it appears that QE does not
cause inflation as narrowly defined. If you believe that narrowly
defined CPI is the only kind of inflation, then stop reading now. You’re
in denial and presentations of fact and logic won’t change that.

RT:Levels of radioactive cesium in a well at the Fukushima nuclear power
plant are 90 times higher than just three days ago, and may spread into
the Pacific Ocean. Meanwhile, 10 applications to restart closed
reactors under stricter rules have been received.
Read RT’s article about a hero Fukushima ex-manager who died of cancer
TEPCO, the company that operated the plant and is now in charge
of the cleanup and decommissioning, said that cesium levels of
27,000 Becquerel’s per liter, from a well on the seaward side of
reactor Number 2 building, the highest cesium levels found since
the March 2011 disaster.
“It is unclear whether the radioactive water is leaking into
the sea. After gathering needed data, we will conduct
analyses,” a TEPCO official told Japanese media.
Although the levels of cesium collected on July 8 were 90 times
higher than those collected just three days earlier on July 5,
levels of other radioactive materials, such as strontium,
remained the same as three days earlier.
“We do not know why only cesium levels have risen,”a
TEPCO spokesman said.

“The scapegoats being marked for death and imprisoned this time arethe poor.”

By Max Keiser: The NSA in America is following in the Nazi tradition in its attempt
to discriminate based on data collection, modeled around their belief
system - which justifies trashing the Constitution in pursuit of ‘pure’
data.

DNA is data. Thanks to the
scientific work of Watson and Crick and their discovery of the
double-helix and all its component parts in the DNA strands that
make up all living cells, we know that humans are made up of
data. To microbiologists and bio-engineers, this information
means the development of drugs and treatments for illnesses -
leading to more healthy, better lives.

For dystopian, nightmarish autocrats and megalomaniacs, data can
be interpreted as a way to segregate populations based on outward
traits such as gender, skin color, physical appearance, family history
and cultural affinities. The National Socialist Party in Germany
back in the 1930s used this access and warehousing of data as the
basis for their attempt to create a ‘pure’ race of people:
unquestioning of authority, uniform in appearance - with
homicidal and genocidal tendencies.

Connor Simpson:On December 7, 2010, Grant Williams, the Asia equity trading head for global investment bank Jeffries, included a Downfall
video mocking JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in a company newsletter
and the next day he was fired for unacceptable conduct. But a Hong Kong
judge ruled today that the firing was "hypersensitive" and awarded
Williams $1.86 million.
Yes, someone will actually be paid $1.86 million for sending one of the Internet's most common memes to his coworkers. Bloomberg's Bei Hu reports Hong Kong's Deputy High Court Judge Conrad Seagroatt ruled
that Jeffries must pay Williams for damages covering lost salary and
bonuses between June 2011 until July 2013. According to Seagrott,
Jeffries' decision to fire Williams for sending a funny video to his
coworkers was "irrational," too. Here's the video in question:

“Nice honest guys come last,” said the first man.“Looks like it’s Joe then,” said the second bloke.Contrary to popular European belief, this is not how most
real Americans think. I realise we could argue up hill and down dale
about how many ‘real’ Americans there actually are, but I’ve met plenty
of them. And they do have better manners than us, by the way.
Lest we forget, 48.5% of Americans, on average, vote Democrat. But as my
chum Butch asks, “What do you call a Democrat with four million
dollars?” to which the answer is, “A Republican”.But the ‘looks like it’s Joe then’ bollocks is pretty much a
universal belief among multinational corporatist America. Without
question – and in a predictably American way – the US State Department
plumped for the Muslim Brotherhood in late 2011 as the most likely
winners in the Middle East – and the least of all evils.

Submitted by Tyler Durden:Today, something happened that has not happened since the Lehman collapse: the 1 Month Gold Forward Offered (GOFO)
rate turned negative, from 0.015% to -0.065%, for the first time in
nearly 5 years, or technically since just after the Lehman bankruptcy
precipitated AIG bailout in November 2011. And if one looks at the 3
Month GOFO, which also turned shockingly negative overnight from 0.05%
to -0.03%, one has to go back all the way to the 1999 Washington
Agreement on gold, to find the last time that particular GOFO rate was
negative.

Before we get into the implications of this rather historic inversion, let's review the basics:What is GOFO (Gold Forward Offered Rates)?

The Onion: A dying kid in Houston is holding on until the Astros develop a player
worth meeting, fossilized evidence reveals the Spazosaurus was the
largest doofus ever to roam the earth, and a Facebook friend is
apparently under the impression that Ron Paul is still running for a
major federal office.

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